Silent Witness

What's this about? Family members are missing.

Police think it's an extortion racket.

Is it my mother's?

You trusted them?! I wanted to know if Mama is still alive.

There is no-one you can trust!

I know what you are.

I know what you did with the van.

Where can you go where you'll be safe?

I'm not buying her. I'm taking her.

You come near me again, I'll kill you!

Murder weapon? No obvious wood splinter. A metal bar?

Metal bar would do it.

Wear this. You'll be safer.

A267. B means "Back to London".

94 kilometres to Charing Cross.

It's not a password. It's a place.

This programme contains scenes which some viewers may find upsetting from the start

Please! Where is my brother?

When will I see him?

Please, I have no more money...

Where is he? Please. Please!

When will I...?

Oh, please!

'Ladies and gentlemen, we will shortly be arriving at Dover.

'Le ferry est sur le point de partir.

'Les passagers sont pries de se rendre sur les points...'

Please.

Please. Please.

Do we have any idea who these dead people are?

No, not yet. None of the bodies had ID on them.

Trafficking? I think so.

I need Butler in the loop.

I think these deaths are related to the killings in London.

You think that? These people died weeks ago.

The London victims are recent.

Both of my London victims had the A-road location marker

in messages in their phone.

How are they involved?

I don't know.

Ugh, no signal.

You have to... You have to walk out to the road.

Out to the road? How did you call me?

I walked out to the road.

I'm not a thief.

Can you work for a place to stay?

Was it a mistake?

They know when the van passed through Dover,

did they die en route?

Two murdered men knew the location.

So someone kills Jamal al Sham and Kali Aziz to keep the van hidden.

Did they know? The van was hidden.

Why would you hide it?

Because you open the doors when you arrived and found

the people inside were dead.

You didn't know what to do, so you hid the van.

No.

The panels of the van were pressed out.

You can see where they kicked and pounded the doors.

If it happened en route, the driver would have known.

Someone would have noticed. Border Force, another driver.

No, they were alive when they got here.

Hidden in the trees and left to die, slowly.

In a metal prison they thought was going to save them.

Assalamu alaikum.

Wa alaikum assalaam.

Zakat.

Thanks for your help and everything you do.

Written in blood? Yeah.

DNA.

Police.

Do you rent rooms here?

Yeah? How many people you got staying here?

What's your name?

Fred.

We found this address written next to the body of a gentleman

who had passed away, Fred.

We have a facial reconstruction.

Do you recognise him?

No.

We have a warrant to search these premises,

would you open the door, please?

OK. I open the door. OK?

Thank you.

He's running.

Go!

You all right? Yeah. Yeah.

We did this.

We locked them in the back of the van and left them to die.

We created the problem

and then we slammed the door.

Oh, God.

Teeth marks.

We made them beasts.

The beasts are the people that put them in the van, Nikki.

Gave them false hope and took their money.

And then their humanity.

If people migrate illegally, then they put themselves in danger.

Hobson's choice. They're in danger if they stay.

We've consistently said we will help refugees, just only from a camp.

Then we've been consistently inhuman.

There are 14 million of them... "Them"?

What, we, we just take them all?

Take them in or leave them to die? Not a tough choice for me.

Nikki, we can't afford it.

What is it?

Someone's dreams of the future. Diamonds.

They don't want to be a burden, Thomas.

They want to be safe.

Where are you coming from, sir?

Calais, but I'm from Belgium.

You are... You're Brian?

No, I'm not.

Began your journey in Belgium?

Yeah.

Is this your van?

Aboon Dbashmayo...

No, actually, I borrowed it from a friend.

Nethcadash shmokh...

You borrowed it?

Yes. Teethe malkoothokh...

Nehwe sebyonokh...

Are you aware of your customs allowances, sir? Yes.

May we take a look in the back, please?

Sure.

Can you pull into the inspection bay, please, sir. Mmm-hmm.

His brother was in the van.

Does he know?

Those from the van? Yeah. All dead...

Bad choice of words. Yeah.

They're charging.

I cross checked the address books,

numbers received and numbers dialled on our two victims,

Jamal and Kali's phones... And?

And they had each other's numbers.

One French mobile number in common, under the letters YH.

One English mobile number in common, marked AW.

Both have the MemoWire messenger app.

Hmm.

What should we do, Jack?

Jack?

The messages are being sent by the phones I found in the van.

"Please, in the name of God, don't let us die this way."

They were locked in the back of the van.

No signal in the forest, the messages didn't send.

Batteries ran out searching for signal.

"Help us. We're dying."

Messages from the dead.

But this world...

it's nothing.

Soiled, meaningless.

We must say to the kafir as the Koran has taught us -

you have rejected the truth,

so, sooner or later...

...a punishment will come.

Turn that off, please.

Off! Not in church.

Sorry.

Afternoon, chaps. What do we have?

All right, gents. There's no need to empty it.

Load it back up.

Thank you for your time, sir. I'll let you be back on your way.

I told you to turn that off in the church.

I need to find her.

My mother, she is alive.

What is it?

Akka just received a message from her mother.

Restores your faith in the universe.

This was four weeks ago at Dover customs control.

We don't get a clear view of the driver from the video,

but, from the time stamp, we managed to retrieve his passport.

Alan Wilson.

He's from Croydon.

He was a youth offender,

convicted of grievous bodily harm and sent down for seven months.

His exact whereabouts at the moment are unknown...

It seems likely the van came through Dover

and was secreted and abandoned soon afterwards.

All seven victims in the van died of hypertonic dehydration.

Lack of fluid.

It takes between three and five days to die.

Depending on your general health.

All right, he parks the van amongst the trees and... goes?

Was Jamal or Kali Aziz meant to collect the van

and the people in it?

We don't know the answer.

Alan Wilson does.

Fingerprints, rear panel of the van...

Brian Hunt.

Works for Border Force.

Mr Hunt?

How much do you lot get paid?

New? Yeah.

Pia Butler. I'm from Immigration Enforcement.

I'm helping the police investigate the deaths of seven people.

The ones in the van? Yeah.

Yeah, I heard. It was a terrible tragedy.

Shouldn't have happened. No.

They came through Dover? Yeah.

And I was the Duty Officer?

Did you look in the van?